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A shift towards self-employed estate agency models has contributed to a decline in estate agency branches, research suggests. Analysis by property data...

UK estate agents receive the lowest sales commission across eight of the world’s biggest property markets, new research suggests. The analysis suggests...

Hamptons is anticipating an 12% drop in property transactions across Great Britain next year as interest rate rises and the cost of...

Increasing numbers of buyers are gazundering or ‘price chipping’ on their offers to force property sellers and agents into last minute...

A parliamentary petition calling for ground rent charges to be extended to existing leases has reached the required number of signatures...

Agents have nothing to fear from a market slowdown, an industry executive claims. Nick Ball, head of sales and client services at...

Homebuyers are deterred from moving again and using the same estate agent due to the stress and increasing length of time...

Asking prices for typical first-time buyer homes and equivalent rents have risen three times faster compared with the pre-pandemic years, Rightmove...

House price indices may be reporting record rises but sales seem to be slowing. The latest HMRC property transactions data for June...

The market share of hybrid and online agents has increased slightly but they are still struggling to break into the higher...

Agents have begun experience a ‘more traditional’ market with demand dropping and offers coming in slightly under asking price, research claims. The...

Agents are currently achieving 99.4% of the asking price on listings, research shows.  The figure, calculated by agency comparison website GetAgent based...

Agents have a “clear opportunity” to nudge high-value homeowners who are considering listing their properties for sale, Zoopla claims. It comes as...

More properties went under offer in June 2022 than during the same month of the stamp duty holiday rush of last year,...

The number of transactions progressing to completion is being hit by the cost of living crisis and rising interest rates, new...

New instructions and buyer demand have stumbled again but agents are still managing to sell existing stock above asking price, the...

Almost a third of property sales that collapsed during the second quarter of this year were hit by lenders toughening their...

Auctioneers have a better chance than agents of getting homes sold by Christmas, an industry figure claims. Jeremy Prior, managing director of...

Estate agents are being urged to be supportive after a LinkedIn post highlighted the current pressures that conveyancers are under to...

Legal experts are warning that the rush to beat interest rate rises could lead to “ill conceived” and “rushed transactions.” The Bank...

Annual house price growth figures returned to double digits in April but there are warnings that this could be as good...

The growth of the internet and technology has transformed virtually every aspect of our lives, including how we approach the property...

In the first of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, managing director of mio, the estate agent sales progression platform, explores the...

A recent National Association of Estate Agents press release suggesting solar panels were among the “top things” to devalue a home...